So, I had been in Luang Prabang, Laos for the past 2 days, where I had the bike ride, water buffalo, rode elephants, and jumped down from waterfalls, but the most peaceful time was about to come, on the 3rd and final day/morning I was in Luang Prabang.
About 20 of us got up before sunrise, around 5:45 am, to take tuk tuks to experince, feeding the monks.
This is quite the experince. Each morning, 200-300 monks walk through the city on the street outside the temple, and walk by the 100s of people waiting for the monks. The people kneel on the side walks with small baskets of sticky rice, to put into the monks bowls. This is how the monks eat for the day.
The Monks can not cook for themselves, they are not allowed. They pray, study, take care of the temple, and meditate. The bits of sticky rice that they collect on their slow walk down the street to all the Good Buddists is how they eat for the day.
So how it worked, as I mentioned, is we kneeled on the side walks, that had mats on them, and each of us in the tour were givne aobut a half a poud of cooked sticky rice. We made sure of have clean hands, and we took small amount of our rice and placed it in the monks bowls as they walked by. We didn't get every monk, but everyother one as they walked by. There was not a sound going on as this all happened.
It was so calm, and a beautiful experience as the sun rose, and the day started, and every one focused on being the best person they could that day...
About 20 of us got up before sunrise, around 5:45 am, to take tuk tuks to experince, feeding the monks.
This is quite the experince. Each morning, 200-300 monks walk through the city on the street outside the temple, and walk by the 100s of people waiting for the monks. The people kneel on the side walks with small baskets of sticky rice, to put into the monks bowls. This is how the monks eat for the day.
The Monks can not cook for themselves, they are not allowed. They pray, study, take care of the temple, and meditate. The bits of sticky rice that they collect on their slow walk down the street to all the Good Buddists is how they eat for the day.
So how it worked, as I mentioned, is we kneeled on the side walks, that had mats on them, and each of us in the tour were givne aobut a half a poud of cooked sticky rice. We made sure of have clean hands, and we took small amount of our rice and placed it in the monks bowls as they walked by. We didn't get every monk, but everyother one as they walked by. There was not a sound going on as this all happened.
It was so calm, and a beautiful experience as the sun rose, and the day started, and every one focused on being the best person they could that day...
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